At the same time as the fierce battle between Fengyang and Yuekou was in full swing, the 115th Infantry Wing of the 128th Brigade, the main force of the 114th Division of the Yuejun East Road Reinforcements, arrived around Erpu Town through the Dingfeng Highway.

Erpu Town, the headquarters of the first main regiment of the first division.

In the sound of hurried footsteps, a major officer had already hurried into the regimental headquarters.

The regimental commander who was sitting in front of the map, smoking and pondering, turned around when he heard the voice, and the person who came was Qi Delong, the commander of the second battalion of the first regiment.

(Note: As mentioned above, although the rescue [***] has been expanded, the military rank awarded by the national political axe has not changed, at this time, the rescue [***] commander Qiao Anbang is still a major general, the division commander is a colonel, the regiment commander under his jurisdiction has the rank of lieutenant colonel, the battalion commander is naturally a major, and some newly promoted officers from the grassroots level are even captains and lieutenants. When he came to the front, Qi Delong stood up and saluted the seal: "Tuanzao, the scouts report that the traces of devils have been found five miles away, and the strength is about a wing, and there is a steady stream of large troops behind it. ”

"Huh?!" Hearing this, Feng Guo suddenly got up, and immediately said solemnly: "The devil came so fast, order all battalions, prepare for battle!" ”

"Yes!" Qi Delong suddenly agreed, and walked out impromptuly.

…………………… A group discovered the whereabouts of the devil, and the devil also discovered the anomaly in Erpu Town.

On the road, the commander of the 115th Infantry Wing, Setsunaka Yazaki, and two staff officers were marching in cars. Suddenly, the moving car came to a halt.

Nagayazaki looked up and saw that his reconnaissance team leader, Second Lieutenant Ono, had hurried over.

Nagayazaki pushed the door and got out of the car and asked, "Ono, what's the situation?" ”

Second Lieutenant Ono suddenly retracted his feet and saluted: "Captain, there is a branch army stationed in Erpu Town, and the strength of the army is unknown. ”

"Oh?" Nagayazaki was slightly startled when he heard this, and then said: "It seems that the Chinese army has been prepared for a long time, first report this information to the brigade commander, and order all infantry brigades and artillery squadrons to prepare for the attack!" ”

"Hay!" Second Lieutenant Ono bowed his head sharply in response, and then turned away.

…………………… Outside Erpu Town, on the forward position of the first regiment, two battalions and one company.

A company commander was patrolling the trenches with a gun in one hand, and when he walked to a machine gun position, a machine gunner was tinkering with an MG34 general-purpose machine gun, and muttered in a low voice while tinkering: "Why did you replace Lao Tzu's Browning heavy machine gun, and replace it with such a small one, can it be as powerful as the Browning heavy machine gun?" "Since the rescue of [***] all the German-style equipment, the officers and soldiers of the division have not been able to use these German-style equipment in actual combat, including the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, the predecessor of the famous MG42 general-purpose machine gun.

The company commander walked up and slapped the machine gunner on the back of the head, and scolded with a smile: "You dog knows a fart, I remember once the general seat said that this machine gun can top ten devils, you will know later." ”

The machine gunner covered the back of his head and said suspiciously, "Is it so powerful?" ”

"Damn, you kid didn't fight less during training, is the rate of fire of this machine gun comparable to Browning?" The company commander said as he reached out to fan the Heavy again.

The machine gunner was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, and said with a smile: "It can't be compared, that guy is much faster than Browning, but aren't we used to Browning and have feelings for the old gun." ”

"Okay, don't fucking talk nonsense, the devil will come in a while, use this machine gun to shoot Lao Tzu fiercely, today is the first battle since the establishment of our company, who wants to fight badly, Lao Tzu shot him!" The commander of the first company waved his hand and said solemnly.

"Yes!" The Heavy hurriedly stepped forward and shouted in response.

Soon, the attack of the 115th Infantry Wing began, and it was still the same old tactic, and the commander of the wing, Setsui Yazaki, sent an infantry squad to launch a tentative attack on Erpu Town.

In a company of trenches, seeing dozens of devils rushing menacingly, a rifleman just wanted to raise his shot and slapped the veteran next to him, and reprimanded: "What's the hurry, this is just a tentative attack by the devils, let them in and fight again, and make sure that the dog will not come and go." ”

The rifleman is a new recruit, although after several months of training, but he has not really been on the battlefield, let alone fought with the devil, he is convinced of the words of the platoon commander who participated in the defense of Nanjing, and immediately nodded silently and lowered the muzzle.

In fact, after seeing the devil attack, many recruits in the trenches have been scratched to varying degrees, but fortunately, they have been appeased by the veteran squad leaders and platoon commanders.

The veterans who are now instructing the recruits also learned from the battlefield at the cost of countless blood.

It is not difficult to imagine that if there is no guidance from these veterans with actual combat experience, the recruits will definitely fire in advance to expose their own firepower, and then the strike firepower of the devil artillery will follow one after another.

If an army consists entirely of a group of peasants with no combat experience, no matter how advanced the weaponry you equip it, it will not be possible for him to defeat a well-trained and well-equipped opponent.

Only after the baptism of countless bloody battles will this army undergo a qualitative transformation.

Qiao Anbang's troops, whether they were the previous Tiger Brigade or the current Salvation Brigade, were formed based on a group of veterans with actual combat experience, just like some special divisions and regiments of the Yue Army.

With this group of combat backbones, even if the combat effectiveness of this unit is slightly inferior to that of the troops that are all veterans, it will not be much worse, and with the guidance and leadership of veterans, the combat effectiveness of this unit will rise rapidly, and the price paid will be much smaller.

Under the reminder of the veterans, all the officers and soldiers of the company held their breath, and none of them fired a shot, waiting for the devil to approach.

The devils, who had been approaching rapidly, began to wonder, seeing that they were less than two hundred meters away from the position of the Zhina, and there was no movement in the trenches on the opposite side.

In the previous experience of fighting with the [***] team, they only needed to line up a quick charge in the straggler line, and before they could rush within the range of the opponent, the gunfire of the opposite [***] position was already ringing out.

Wondering, dozens of devils did not stop, if the squadron did not fire, they would not mind rushing directly into their trenches, with superb stabbing skills, they were confident that they would support until the main force arrived, then they would become the number one hero of the entire wing.

However, the leader of the devil squad was obviously a person with a lot of combat experience, he waved his hand, ordered the troops to disperse again, and then lined up in a skirmish line and began to approach the position of the central [***] team.

The distance of two hundred meters is almost instantaneous for the running devil soldiers.

The machine gunner, who had been slapped by a company commander before, kept holding the butt of the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, and seeing that dozens of devil soldiers were about to rush to a distance of less than 50 meters, the company commander was still stunned and did not give the order to fire.

The machine gunner's heart was in a hurry, and the palm of the hand holding the butt of the gun had begun to spill with sweat, and he could already clearly see the bright bayonet on the devil's rifle reflecting a little cold in the sun.

When the devil was close to a distance of thirty meters, the company commander who had been silent personally roared with an MG34 general-purpose machine gun: "Brothers, hit me!" With that, he pulled the trigger sharply, and the MG34 general-purpose machine gun suddenly began to roar.

The officers and men of the company, who had been impatient for a long time, also opened fire one after another, and rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns fired in unison, especially the kind of tearing oilcloth characteristic gunfire that burst out from the dozen or so MG34 general-purpose machine guns equipped with the first company filled the entire battlefield.

Although the formation of dozens of devils was very scattered, the firepower of the first company was too fierce, and the distance was close, and as soon as the gunshots rang out, almost ordinary devils were knocked down in succession.

Before the rest of the devil soldiers could react, a dense network of cross-fire composed of more than a dozen MG34 general-purpose machine guns poured down on them.

A series of tearing oilcloths sounded with the screams of the devil soldiers, and the remaining thirty or forty devil soldiers fell like straw in pieces, and they had no power to fight back.

On the sortie position of the 115th Wing, seeing that the forward squad was about to rush into the position of the middle [***] team, Nagayazaki Setsunakasa, who was just about to order the main force to follow up, was shocked by the sudden change of face drastically.

He hurriedly raised his binoculars with both hands, and as far as his eyes could see, he found that the infantry squad that was charging violently just now had all fallen to the ground at this moment, and no one could stand.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Nagayazaki couldn't help but gasp, and said in horror: "Baga Yalu, what kind of secret weapon did the Chinese army equip when it fell to the ground?" The firepower is so powerful? Nagayazaki couldn't help but be shocked, and in the blink of an eye, one of his infantry squads of seventy or eighty people was gone.

After saying this, he turned to the chief of staff and said: "Report to the brigade commander immediately, the defenders of Erpu Zhenchina are equipped with secret weapons, and ask the brigade commander to come to reinforcements as soon as possible." Nagayazaki was cunning, and after seeing a powerful firepower, he did not rush to attack, but wanted to wait until his own army had gathered.

"Hay!" The chief of staff bowed his head abruptly, and then hurriedly turned around and left with his saber on his shoulder.

On the position of the first company, the soldiers high-fived and cheered, and in less than five minutes, they completely annihilated an infantry squad of the devil, and there were no casualties on their own side, which made the recruits of the first company happy.

But for the veterans, this is too normal, first of all, their own side is unprepared, plus the weapons and equipment of the whole company are more advanced than the devils, almost all of them are semi-automatic, automatic weapons, the rate of fire is amazing, especially the dozen or so MG34 general-purpose machine guns are big killers against the infantry, occupy so many advantages, if you can't take out an unsuspected, only equipped with rifles and crooked light machine guns, it is really strange.

(To be continued)